But he notes that any blue chip stock with staying power makes a good DRIP candidate.
In one repetitive incident, the price of a blue chip stock drops, say, 20 cents after several big sell orders comes through.
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"In Lebanon Solidere is the blue-chip stock, " says Ziad Maalouf, head of research at Middle East Capital Group.
Yes, we can say that 2011 was the year of the blue-chip stock.
In almost every sector you can find a blue-chip stock that isn't participating in the rally despite the market's low earnings expectations.
U.S. equity markets closed mostly lower Thursday as national safety issues surrounding bioterrorism concerns and weak corporate results put pressure on blue-chip stock investors.
She takes a look at the factors that move a blue-chip stock these days--in this case, Starbucks--while weaving in the fascinating history of a company that 20 years ago experts would have said couldn't exist.
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The CAC-40, the blue-chip French stock market index, which includes BNP, fell 2.2%.
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Wall Street hasn't exactly come around to lauding the stock as the blue-chip grower that it is.
Everyone knows Chinese products have quality problems, but you'd think its blue-chip stocks, bearing the New York Stock Exchange's seal of approval, would be safe.
Here, following a stock from small cap to blue chip helps.
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Now, what if the stock in question is not a blue chip but rather a REIT with a poorly covered dividend and a focus on the subprime mortgage business, which many expect to come under pressure?
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Infosys, a technology firm, leapt in a generation from a start-up to a global blue chip, owned by institutional shareholders and measured against that most Western of yardsticks, the stock price.
Reopening the NYSE floor is critical for U.S. stock markets because of the NYSE's role as the primary exchange for many blue-chip listings.
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